#politics #BigData #DataRescue

'The [Data Rescue Project] Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more. '

https://www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-project-portal/

Data Rescue Project: Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal. “The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. … The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/data-rescue-project-data-rescue-project-launches-new-portal/

Data Rescue Project: Why We’re Starting a New Federal Data Forum. “[Population Reference Bureau] recently launched the Federal Data Forum—a centralized online community designed to unite public data stakeholders in defense of America’s statistical infrastructure. The initiative builds on PRB’s previous work as data intermediaries, including our American Community Survey Online Community, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/data-rescue-project-why-were-starting-a-new-federal-data-forum/

#politics #gov #data #DataRescue

"The Forum is meant to serve as an early warning system for data threats, a resource hub for advocacy strategies, and a coordination center for collective action."

https://www.datarescueproject.org/federal-data-forum/

The Journalist’s Resource: When health data disappears: 8 tips for finding what’s hidden from public view . “As the U.S. government continues to remove data and make radical changes to its websites, reporters are encountering health data that’s incomplete, altered or missing entirely. At the Association of Health Care Journalists’ annual conference in Los Angeles on May 30, a panel of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/when-health-data-disappears-8-tips-for-finding-whats-hidden-from-public-view-the-journalists-resource/

Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.

This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:

🎯1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.

Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?

🎯2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.

🎯3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/

Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 🌱.

Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?

#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo

(edit: Updated the mock-up image with an improved, non-AI version)

UChicago Library: UChicago Data Mirror website launched to protect access to public datasets. “In response to the withdrawal of multiple public datasets and websites, the DSI and the University of Chicago Library have partnered to launch the UChicago Data Mirror website to protect access to at-risk datasets. The website will preserve backups of these resources within UChicago’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/29/uchicago-library-uchicago-data-mirror-website-launched-to-protect-access-to-public-datasets/

Internet Archive Blog: New Livestream Brings Microfiche Digitization to Life for Democracy’s Library. “Ever wonder how government documents, once locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable and accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time. Today, the Internet Archive has launched a livestream from our microfiche scanning center […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/22/internet-archive-blog-new-livestream-brings-microfiche-digitization-to-life-for-democracys-library/

MuckRock: TSA complaint data disappeared. Here’s where you can still find it.. “Not long ago, I did a routine check-in on a project I hadn’t thought about in a while: a Data Liberation Project repo that scrapes and archives Transportation Security Administration (TSA) traveler complaints. It was supposed to be a quick check-in—just restart the scraper GitHub had paused for inactivity. […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/20/muckrock-tsa-complaint-data-disappeared-heres-where-you-can-still-find-it/